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Spending days traveling, going camping over the weekend, or spending several hours in a waiting room all have something in common: high odds of your smartphone or tablet’s battery dying before you’re ready to bid your gadget farewell. Portable chargers mitigate this issue by providing an on-the-go charging option, and new to the category is […]

The next time you go to a hospital, you might not be speaking to a doctor – not directly, anyway. An increasing number of hospitals in California and several neighboring states have started to phase in robots that allow Doctors to communicate remotely with their patients.

A little over two years since Steve Jobs presented his case for it and after the occasional setback, the Cupertino City Council has finally given Apple full approval to go ahead with its futuristic campus. In exchange, Apple has agreed to fork over more money to the city in the form of a reduced sales tax rebate — going forward, Cupertino will only give back 35 percent sales tax instead of the 50 percent it had previously. Indeed, as soon as Apple gets its final permits some time today, it can begin demolishing the former HP headquarters and start building its own. The circular 2.8-million square foot glass-clad structure you see above is the main hub of the whole affair, and is said to have an underground parking facility that can hold around 2,400 vehicles. There’ll be a 100,000 square foot fitness center, a 120,000 square foot auditorium, plenty more space for the company’s all-important research and development division and of course everything’s designed to be as eco-friendly as possible. Don’t go planning your desk arrangements just yet though, Cupertino employees, as you’ll have to wait until 2016 to move into what Jobs called “the best office building in the world.”

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Source: MacRumors, San Jose Mercury

I am quite sure that any smartphone user worth his or her salt would have heard of Viber before, where it happens to be one of the most popular messaging and social networking apps to date. Well, what happens when you are still rocking to one of those feature phones instead of a modern smartphone with all the relevant bells and whistles to keep you connected at all times? Fret not, as Viber is now available for those who are rocking to the Nokia Asha 308, Asha 310 and Asha 311.

As it stands, there are more than 200 million Viber users worldwide, and with the proliferation of the Asha devices elsewhere in developing countries, you can be sure that the 200 million plus figure is set to go nowhere else up up. With Viber, one is able to send regular messages via the app as well as hold conversations with friends, making it a snap to attach an accompanying photograph, followed by shipping them off over a 3G or Wi-Fi connection. Not only that, making voice calls using Viber is also a possibility, now how about that? Hopefully we would not see any more hacks by malicious parties any more down the road like what happened earlier this year.

Viber To Land On Trio Of Nokia Asha Phones original content from Ubergizmo.

Look, if you’re angling for tickets to Camelot, there are plenty of better ways than this. Besides, how do you expect your duck to buy those tickets? It’s a duck.

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